Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a large academic tertiary/quaternary program based at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, embedded within a major Southeast Michigan academic health system that trains over 900 residents and fellows across 79 programs and maintains affiliations with three medical schools (Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, and Wayne State University School of Medicine). The flagship Royal Oak hospital serves as the system's primary quaternary referral center and hub for nearly all subspecialty fellowships, indicating a training environment with high acuity, complex case mix, and extensive subspecialty exposure. The presence of numerous surgical subspecialty fellowships on-site (breast surgical oncology, colon and rectal, vascular) alongside the general surgery residency suggests a program structured to feed into fellowship training and expose residents to a broad range of subspecialty pathways. The institution-wide emphasis on research infrastructure through the Corewell Health Research Institute and a stated mission to "advance the practice of medicine through education, research and innovation" points to research being woven into training rather than incidental.